A select glossary of English words used formerly in senses different from their present

by Richard Chenivex Trench

$750 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition · Signed

London: John W. Parker & Son, 1859. First edition, 12mo, pp. xii, 232; contemporary speckled calf, rebacked with old gilt decorated spine laid down, marbled endpapers, edges stained red; very light foxing to flyleaves, text clean and sound. Inscribed The Right Honorable William Confer from the author on half title. Later signature of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian on flyleaf. In his introduction, Trench states that

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